5+ Platforms to Find Beginner Friendly Open Source Projects
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Up for Grabs This website curated a list of projects with tasks specifically for new contributors. Projects are labeled as “up-for-grabs”, “jump-in” or “help wanted” making it easy to explore projects that actively want help.
Up-for-grabs.net
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Goodfirstissue.dev Good First Issue curates popular open-source projects to help you make your first contribution to open-source. You can easily sort these projects by issues label, programming language or repository.
Goodfirstissue.dev
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Contribute.dev Contribute.dev allows contributors to make contributions easily to all featured repositories without the need to install dependencies, go through README files or compile code for hours. Gitpod makes this possible in a few simple steps.
Contribute.dev
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Goodfirstissues.com This platform empowers first-time contributors to find and select issues that they want to solve. It aggregates the latest issues with the label “Good First Issue”, which is a GitHub feature for finding easy issues to solve.
Goodfirstissues.com
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First Contributions First Contributions targets developers who want to contribute to open-source software but do not know where or how to start.
First contributions
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Code triage Lets you pick your favorite repositories to receive a different open issue right in your inbox every day.
Code triage
Notable mentions
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First Issues
The first issue twitter bot automates tweets on active issues labeled good first issues
on Github. It covers numerous programming languages like Go, Javascript, TypeScript, C, C++, Java, Rust, PHP, Python, Kotlin, Swift, and more.
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First timers only
This Twitter bot always post the latest issues of open source project assigned thefirst issues
label and available for contributions.
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Good First Issues
This is another notable Twitter bot that frequently tweets active issues labeled good first issues
of any open-source projects. It also covers numerous programming languages like Go, Javascript, TypeScript, C, C++, Java, Rust, PHP, Python, Kotlin, Swift, and more.
good first issue
label is a tag attached to less complex and beginner-friendly tasks of an open-source project.
To stay up-to-date with any open-source projects and open issues, it is recommended you follow these Twitter handles.